Fundamentals of Microwave Photonics

489 Pages·2015·6.72 MB·English

by  V. J. Urick

FUNDAMENTALS OF
MICROWAVE
PHOTONICS
WILEY SERIES IN MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL ENGINEERING
KAI CHANG, Editor
Texas A&M University
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FUNDAMENTALS OF
MICROWAVE
PHOTONICS
VINCENT J. URICK Jr.
JASON D. McKINNEY
KEITH J. WILLIAMS
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CONTENTS
PREFACE xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 EnablingTechnologicalAdvancesandBenefits
ofFiberOpticLinks 6
1.2 AnalogVersusDigitalFiberOpticLinks 13
1.3 BasicFiberOpticComponents 18
1.4 AnalogLinksWithinRFSystems 27
References 28
2 ANALOG PERFORMANCE METRICS 33
2.1 TheScatteringMatrix 34
2.2 NoiseFigure 36
2.3 DynamicRange 39
2.3.1 CompressionDynamicRange 39
2.3.2 Spurious-FreeDynamicRange 43
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viii CONTENTS
2.4 CascadeAnalysis 52
References 54
3 SOURCES OF NOISE IN FIBER OPTIC LINKS 57
3.1 BasicConcepts 58
3.2 ThermalNoise 62
3.3 ShotNoise 69
3.4 Lasers 74
3.5 OpticalAmplifiers 93
3.5.1 Erbium-DopedFiberAmplifiers 94
3.5.2 RamanandBrillouinFiberAmplifiers 108
3.5.3 SemiconductorOpticalAmplifiers 112
3.6 Photodetection 113
References 117
4 DISTORTION IN FIBER OPTIC LINKS 124
4.1 Introduction 124
4.2 DistortioninElectrical-to-OpticalConversion 130
4.3 OpticalAmplifierDistortion 134
4.4 PhotodetectorDistortion 138
4.4.1 PhotodetectorDistortionMeasurementSystems 141
4.4.2 PhotodetectorNonlinearMechanisms 144
References 161
5 PROPAGATION EFFECTS 166
5.1 Introduction 166
5.2 DoubleRayleighScattering 168
5.3 RFPhaseinFiberOpticLinks 170
5.4 ChromaticDispersion 173
5.5 StimulatedBrillouinScattering 184
5.6 StimulatedRamanScattering 190
5.7 Cross-PhaseModulation 193
5.8 Four-WaveMixing 198
5.9 PolarizationEffects 200
References 205